August, 1997

The Interpersonal Computing and Technology Journal (IPCT-J) is
a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal, published four times a year. The journal's
focus is on computer-mediated communication, and the pedagogical issues
surrounding the use of computers and technology in educational settings.

Copyright 1997 University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and the
Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT). Copyright
of individual articles in this publication is retained by the individual
authors. Copyright of the compilation as a whole is held by UMBC and AECT.
It is asked that any republication of this article state that the article
was first published in IPCT-J.

How to subscribe/read the IPCT-J and how to submit a contribution?

To read, just click on a highlighted key phrase in the following
index.

For local (offline) access, download the yearly volume zip packages
(1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997)
containing all the articles, abstracts and editorials and
pkunzip them; you will have every issue and every article in your local files.
The total zip size is over 1 Mbytes and the unzipped size is over 2 Mbytes.

To subscribe the original e-mail/listserv distributed edition, send
a subscription message

What's new?

This IPCT-J site will no more be updated (at least by myself) - the
issues to come will not appear here. Therefore I encourage you all or someone
to take over and continue this WWW version of the IPCT-J archives in some
other web server. The easiest way to do it might be to read the WWW
directory structure description and then download the
zip packages.

The access
statistics cover the current month and the previous month. The statistics
are gathered per file: File "science/optek" means this index page and is
the total count. The column headers are in Finnish; here is the key for
the interpretation:

Directory structure

The main level (WWW.HELSINKI.FI/SCIENCE/OPTEK) contains the index or home
page (file INDEX.HTML) and the zip package (file IPCT-J.ZIP, a DOS PKZIP
format file). Beneath this level there is one subdirectory for each volume
(year, directories 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 and 1997). Each volume directory
contains all the "issue abstracts" files (the contents files), which are
named from N1.TXT to N4.TXT corresponding issues 1 to 4. Each volume directory
contains also subdirectories for the issues of that volume. These issue
directories are named from N1 to N4. The issue directories contain articles
belonging to that issue, and the articles are named with an author name
and extension ".TXT", e.g. BARNES.TXT. In case of an multi-file (HTML formated)
artictle, the article files have been placed into an "AUTHOR.HTM" subdirectory.

Techical notes: All file and directory names in the HTML source are
written in lower case letter (normal Unix style), and all HTML file have
an ".htm" extension (8.3 DOS naming style).